Analysis of 1.3M Emails Unveils Hidden Threats Missed by Other Email Security Solutions
Analysis of 1.3M Emails Unveils Hidden Threats Missed by Other Email Security Solutions
Spoof! You’ve Been Hacked!

Spoof! You’ve Been Hacked!

How did the hackers steal my email account? Panic is often a normal part of the reaction when people discover their email accounts have been used to send fake emails, online scams, or spoof emails. Calm is best, though; in most spoofing cases, your accounts have not been hacked.

This blog will provide insight into the differences and similarities between hacked and spoofed. Enabling advanced email security platforms like Trustifi helps protect your email from both!

Has my Email been Hacked or Spoofed?

If a malicious third party has hacked into your email account, retrieving your password and potentially gaining access to other systems, you have been hacked.

Hackers can use your accounts to send emails that appear authentic but were not sent by you, including many messages with grammatical errors. What has happened is the hacker is impersonating other people’s email names by using lookalike sending domains. Emails with a domain like Microsot.com or goolge.com are designed to trick the users into thinking these messages originated from Microsoft or Google.

How do Hackers Spoof Email Addresses?

Hackers will register lookalike domains with a name registration service claiming the impersonated domain name. Once the domain is registered, the hackers will attach an MX record so they can bring to send out spoofing emails like customersrv@goolge.com.

What are the Differences Between Phishing and Spoofing?

A typical phishing scam involves trying to trick people into giving them personal information through well-crafted emails. Spoof attacks make it look like hackers are sending emails from a  trusted domain.

How do Email Phishing Attacks Work?

A phishing attack happens when hackers fool their victims into trusting them through direct email messages, social engineering, or SMS. Con artists attempt to deceive victims by sending dangerous emails and texts that could lead to financial scamming.

Hackers usually target their victims through emails containing malicious software with an acute promoting sense of urgency to take some action creating victims of identity theft. Some malevolent attacks focus on groups of email clients instead of individual users for malware distribution.

However, spear-phishing and whaling attacks have become common when hackers target specific individuals or executives within an organization.

How can I Stop Email Spoofing?

Since spoofing is a common technique, proven security measures help identify and prevent these activities by searching through email headers, validating email sender domains, and scanning for email phishing scams.

Blocking unauthenticated sending domains helps stop spoofing and impersonation attacks. This strategy involves enabling SPF, DKIM, and domain-based message authentication (DMARC) capabilities.

Organizations leveraging these protective measures help reduce spoofing attacks. These strategies have complexity in setup and maintenance. However, they help reduce the organization’s attack surface.

This attack vector complicates email anti-spoofing techniques because the base protocol for sending emails doesn’t cause confirmation of the sending domain. Reliable email providers will need to implement extra inspections. For individuals, the most reliable anti-hacking strategy is to have your e-mails hosted by a dependable provider and exercise security protocols.

Why Trustifi?

With Trustifi vendor consolidation and reduction of resource cost allocation, they align with the needs of small and midsize clients while not compromising on email protection, all with a single pricing model.

Trustifi’s agile platform offers several proven security controls to help prevent the following attacks:

  • BEC: Trustifi protection: Trustifi’s BEC AI is trained and designed to detect text-based emails to perform social engineering attacks, including spoofing attacks.
  • Pre-vishing attacks: Trustifi protection: Trustifi’s proprietary metrics can detect and quarantine pre-vishing attacks by unique identifiers.
  • Spear Phishing: Trustifi protection: Trustifi uses AI, feeds, and proprietary metrics to detect and quarantine malicious emails, URLs, and files that aim to steal the recipient’s data.
  • Impersonation: Trustifi’s advanced email security platform detects and tags the impersonation of the recipient’s contacts to ensure safe correspondence with a genuine connection. Also, it can identify actual emails from a brand.
  • Account compromised: Trustifi protection: Trustifi has unique metrics to detect malicious emails and block them by supporting SPF, DKIM, and DMARC domain authentication, even though it comes from a known contact and allows listed senders. And provide account compromise detection of breached internal mailboxes.
  • New domains: Trustifi protection: Trustifi can detect additional parts and service abuse and quarantine the email.

Trustifi Single Console for Ease-of-Use Management

With a limited IT and security staff at most organizations, the clients need security solutions to manage more efficiently while meeting HIPAA, PCI, and other compliance mandates.

Trustifi’s email security services feature a comprehensive suite of tools for advanced threat protection, data loss prevention, and enterprise email encryption.

Trustifi’s Email detection and response (EMDR) offers clients access to experts to assist with the implementation.

Culture

As a global cybersecurity provider of both inbound and outbound email protection, Trustifi currently supports customers from countries including the USA, Canada, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, the UK, the Netherlands, India, the UAE, China, Japan, Cyprus, the Philippines, and more. The company has also developed “One-Click Compliance” capabilities that cater to world security regulations, including PDPO for Hong Kong, POPI for South Africa, GDPR for Europe, and LGPD for Brazil.

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